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Program representation, which aims at converting program source code into vectors with automatically extracted features, is a fundamental problem in programming language processing (PLP). Recent work tries to represent programs with neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Ting Long , Yutong Xie , Xianyu Chen , Weinan Zhang , Qinxiang Cao , Yong Yu

When writing programs, people have the ability to tackle a new complex task by decomposing it into smaller and more familiar subtasks. While it is difficult to measure whether neural program synthesis methods have similar capabilities, what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Kensen Shi , Joey Hong , Manzil Zaheer , Pengcheng Yin , Charles Sutton

Testing provides means pertaining to assuring software performance. The total aim of software industry is actually to make a certain start associated with high quality software for the end user. However, associated with software testing has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Ahmed Mateen , Marriam Nazir , Salman Afsar Awan

Genetic Programming (GP) has traditionally entangled the evolution of symbolic representations with their performance-based evaluation, often relying solely on raw fitness scores. This tight coupling makes GP solutions more fragile and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Nam H. Le , Josh Bongard

Geometric programming (GP) provides a power tool for solving a variety of optimization problems. In the real world, many applications of geometric programming (GP) are engineering design problems in which some of the problem parameters are…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2010-02-08 A. K. Ojha , A. K. Das

Program synthesis with Genetic Programming searches for a correct program that satisfies the input specification, which is usually provided as input-output examples. One particular challenge is how to effectively handle loops and recursion…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Matheus Campos Fernandes , Fabricio Olivetti de Franca , Emilio Francesquini

Ensemble learning is a powerful paradigm that has been usedin the top state-of-the-art machine learning methods like Random Forestsand XGBoost. Inspired by the success of such methods, we have devel-oped a new Genetic Programming method…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Nuno M. Rodrigues , João E. Batista , Sara Silva

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved notable success in code generation. However, they still frequently produce uncompilable output because their next-token inference procedure does not model formal aspects of code. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Niels Mündler , Jingxuan He , Hao Wang , Koushik Sen , Dawn Song , Martin Vechev

This paper introduces Multi-population Ensemble Genetic Programming (MEGP), a computational intelligence framework that integrates cooperative coevolution and the multiview learning paradigm to address classification challenges in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mohammad Sadegh Khorshidi , Navid Yazdanjue , Hassan Gharoun , Mohammad Reza Nikoo , Fang Chen , Amir H. Gandomi

This paper proposes Genetic Algorithm with Border Trades (GAB), a novel modification of the standard genetic algorithm that enhances exploration by incorporating new chromosome patterns in the breeding process. This approach significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Qingchuan Lyu

Probabilistic techniques are central to data analysis, but different approaches can be difficult to apply, combine, and compare. This paper introduces composable generative population models (CGPMs), a computational abstraction that extends…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Feras Saad , Vikash Mansinghka

Using evolutionary computation algorithms to solve multiple tasks with knowledge sharing is a promising approach. Image feature learning can be considered as a multitask problem because different tasks may have a similar feature space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Ying Bi , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

For simple digital circuits, conventional method of designing circuits can easily be applied. But for complex digital circuits, the conventional method of designing circuits is not fruitfully applicable because it is time-consuming. On the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-10 S. M. Ashik Eftekhar , Sk. Mahbub Habib , M. M. A. Hashem

Symbolic regression that aims to detect underlying data-driven models has become increasingly important for industrial data analysis. For most existing algorithms such as genetic programming (GP), the convergence speed might be too slow for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Chen Chen , Changtong Luo , Zonglin Jiang

A recent trend is to leverage machine learning models to improve the evolutionary design and optimization process. We propose a novel transformer-based mutation operator for Cartesian genetic programming (CGP) for the automated design of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ondrej Galeta , Lukas Sekanina

We consider the classical problem of invariant generation for programs with polynomial assignments and focus on synthesizing invariants that are a conjunction of strict polynomial inequalities. We present a sound and semi-complete method…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Hongfei Fu , Amir Kafshdar Goharshady , Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive promise in code generation, yet their progress remains limited by the shortage of large-scale datasets that are both diverse and well-aligned with human reasoning. Most existing resources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Amal Abed , Ivan Lukic , Jörg K. H. Franke , Frank Hutter

Three approaches to implement genetic programming on GPU hardware are compilation, interpretation and direct generation of machine code. The compiled approach is known to have a prohibitive overhead compared to other two. This paper…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Hakan Ayral , Songül Albayrak

While many optimization problems work with a fixed number of decision variables and thus a fixed-length representation of possible solutions, genetic programming (GP) works on variable-length representations. A naturally occurring problem…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Benjamin Doerr , Timo Kötzing , J. A. Gregor Lagodzinski , Johannes Lengler

We introduce and experimentally demonstrate the utility of tag-based genetic regulation, a new genetic programming (GP) technique that allows programs to dynamically adjust which code modules to express. Tags are evolvable labels that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Alexander Lalejini , Matthew Andres Moreno , Charles Ofria